Occupation: Poet Birth: March 23, 1955
Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the h….
Enlightenment should be a human right..
May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle..
It began in images and it ended in symbolism..
If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen..
Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it..
Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer..
Certainty is usually a sign of pathology..
A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals..
Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory..
Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness..
Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors'….
We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory….
Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational….
The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue..
The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and pond….
We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily for….
Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for powe….
Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture ….
If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold..
Canada is like several puzzles that we are all working on at the same time. Everyone has a part to add, but no one has seen the whole picture yet..